Top 39 Quotes About Robert Peel
#1. The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.
Benjamin Disraeli
#2. Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.
Robert Peel
#3. police are the people and people are the police
Robert Peel
#4. I don't believe that people vote for President based on spouses. I don't even think they vote much based on vice presidents or any other factor. I think they choose between the two people who are running.
Hillary Clinton
#5. Sometimes from this hillside just after sunset
The rim of the sky takes on a tinge
Of the palest green, like the flesh of a cucumber
When you peel it carefully.
Robert Hass
#6. We're all idealists, all materialists; and the final judgment or label is simply a matter of ideology, or, if you prefer, of political commitment.
Fredric Jameson
#7. On the Wednesday evening - that is, the day I saw her Majesty on this particular point - I had the opportunity of conferring with all those whom I proposed to submit to her Majesty as Ministers.
Robert Peel
#8. My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.
Robert Peel
#9. However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.
Robert Peel
#10. No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.
Robert Peel
#11. There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.
Livy
#12. I never knew a man escape failures, in either mind or body, who worked seven days in a week.
Robert Peel
#13. Is not art a tool we employ to peel the kitsch off life? Layer by layer art strips life bare. The more abstract it gets, the more transparent the air is. Can it be that the farther it is removed from life, the clearer art becomes?
Robert Musil
#14. Can there be a more lamentable picture than that of a Chancellor of the Exchequer seated on an empty chest by a pool of bottomless deficiency fishing for a budget?
Robert Peel
#15. But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
Robert Peel
#16. Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.
Whoopi Goldberg
#17. Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.
Robert Fulghum
#18. Public opinion is a compound of folly, weakness, prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs.
Robert Peel
#19. "Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread out into space and establish independent colonies, our future should be safe."
Stephen Hawking
#20. Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#21. Traditional methods of sales prospecting are grossly inefficient.
Jill Konrath
#22. If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.
Graham Joyce
#23. There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
Robert Peel
#24. The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood!
Robert Peel
#25. Well, I suggest you sleep on it," said Aunt Zelda sensibly. "Things always look better in the morning.
Angie Sage
#26. When the time comes to change a paradigm
to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another
the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.
Leonard Shlain
#27. Much is said about English severity, but not a word about Irish provocation.
Robert Peel
#28. For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!
John Lennon
#29. There sits the only king I mean to bow my knee to, m'lords," he thundered. "The King in the North!
George R R Martin
#30. But when one identifies the Church with a cultural and political bloc, there is the danger of making difficult the Church's contact with all those outside the bloc.
Karl Lehmann
#31. People tend to think that I know less about what I'm talking about than I actually do - usually people who think that all aristocrats are stupid.
Christopher Monckton
#32. In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.
Robert Peel
#33. Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Robert Peel
#35. The distinction of being without an honour is becoming a rare and valuable one and should not become extinct.
Robert Peel
#36. Peel the apple in your hand, girl, not the one on the tree, Lini's thin voice seemed to whisper in her ear. Tears are for after; they just waste time before.
Robert Jordan
#37. I have read all that has been written by the gravest authorities on political economy on the subject of rent, wages, taxes, tithes.
Robert Peel
#38. The real truth is, the number of convicts is too overwhelming for the means of proper and effectual punishment. I despair of any remedy but that which I wish I could hope for - a great reduction in the amount of crime.
Robert Peel
#39. The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.
Robert Peel
